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7:00 am-6:00 pm
Room Four Room Six
12:30-1:30 PM
Room Four Room Six
1:30 - 5:30 PM
#9 - Getting more “Good Fire” on the
Ground Across North
America
#11 Cont.. Prescribed fire/fuels reduction &
climate change manager/scientist
workshop
12:00-6:00 PM
6:00
7:30 am-5:00 pm
8:30-9:30
9:30-10:00
#3- Accessing Fire Weather Information: A Tutorial on
Using the MesoWest/Synoptic API Web
Services
#8 - Interpreting Predictive Services Fire Potential
Products: Fire Season 2015
perspective
Lunch - on your own
Room Five
#10 -Linking Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, and Weather
Systems in Prescribed Fire
Planning
#5- Introduction to the BehavePlus fire modeling
system
#4 - Integrating Information to Support Fire Management
Welcome and Opening Session (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
Room ThreeRoom One
#6 -Understanding Prescribed Fire Implications
and Developing Strategies for the New US Federal
Ozone Standard
Exhibitor Set up (Exhibit Hall E)
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Conference Registration/Information Desk Open (Pre-Function E)
Social Reception with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall E)
Room Two
#2 - Conterminous United States FIRE BEHAVIOR of FUELS for VEGETATION: Invest Your Knowledge in the LANDFIRE Guidebook
Room Two
#7 – How to generate, interpret and apply
landscape-scale hazard and
risk assessment results
NETWORKING BREAK with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall E)
International Association of Wildland FireWicked Problem, New Solutions: Our Fire, Our Problem
5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels ConferenceOregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
April 11-15, 2016
Tentative PROGRAM SCHEDULE (as of 2/12/2016)Monday, April 11, 2016
Conference Registration/Information Desk Open (Pre-Function E)
WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS (cont.)
Room FiveRoom ThreeRoom One
#1 - Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT)—An application for
Wildland Fuel and Fire Management Planning
8:30 - 12:30
#11 -Prescribed fire/fuels reduction &
climate change manager/scientist
workshop
10:00-10:20
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
Room Five - E146
SPECIAL SESSION: Towards Efficient Large
Fire Management: Monitoring, Modeling, and
Accountability
Moderator:
Rx FireModerator:
Recent Fires in Chiricahua National Monument: A Case
StudyL. Dean Clark
Fire BehaviorModerator:
Fire and Smoke ModelingModerator:
Using McArthur Model To Predict
Bushfire Prone Areas In New South Wales
Liran Sun
Room One - E141
Is it time to say goodbye to fire rotations?
Cecil Frost
Restoration of xeric oak forests in south-central
United State with prescribed fire
Stephen Hallgren
Firefighting Resource Use and Movement in the United
StatesErin Belval
A framework for optimal incident management: safe and effective response in a
new fire management paradigm
Christopher Dunn
Multiphase CFD Model of Wildland Fire Initiation and
SpreadVladimir Agranat
Data-driven Forecasting
Paradigms for Wildland Fires using the CAWFE modeling system and Fire Detection
DataJanice Coen
Room Two - E142/143
Risk AssessmentModerator:
Trends and thresholds in fire behavior across Yellowstone’s young lodgepole
pine forestsKellen Nelson
Room Three - E144 Room Four - E145
Develop a
simulation/optimization procedure to study the daily
suppression resource movement in Colorado
Yu Wei
GridFire: A Fast Raster-Based
Fire Spread and Severity Model
Gary Johnson
Large airtanker use –
challenging the status quo and highlighting data and
reporting needsCrystal Stonesifer
Meaningful translation of aerial firefighting objectives, context and outcomes into
effectiveness across the range of fire sizes for the
Aerial Firefighting Use and Effectiveness Study
Keith Stockmann
Interpreting “all lands” risk management strategies with
network analysis of fire transmission
Alan Ager
A National Wildfire Risk Assessment for U.S. Forest Service
LandsGreg Dillon
Fuels and Fire Behaviour in New Zealand Wilding Conifers
Tara Strand
Perception and Management of
Sociopolitical Risks on Large FiresArmando Gonzalez-Caban
Investigating temporal trends in wildfire hazard
Jessica Haas
An experimental study of the stochastic nature of firebrand flight
Ali Tohidi
The Frequency in the Flames: Acoustic Impulse Events Generated by Wildland
Fire FuelsKara Yedinak
Towards an integrated fire-atmosphere prediction
system with data
assimilationSher Shranz
High Fidelity Reduced Order Models for Wildland Fires
Alan Lattimer
Risky Business: Planning for Fire-Adapted Landscapes - Putting the
Risk in Wildfire Management
PlanningMaria Sharpe
Post-fire tree mortality model assessment following
prescribed burning
treatments in National Park units of the western U.S.
Jeffrey Kane
2015 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey
Mark Melvin
11:40-12:10
12:10-1:30
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
Contributions to a megafire: Fire-
induced winds, drought, and fuel buildup due to fire suppression
Janice Coen
ForestFireFOAM: A Numerical Tool For Investigating The Burning Dynamics Of
Wildland FuelsMohamad El Houssami
A Fundamental Exploration of Flame
Structure in Wildland FiresColin Miller
Fire BehaviorModerator:
The effect of static stability on the atmospheric response
to a wildland fireJoseph Charney
A Study of the Influence of Vertical Canopy Structure on
Fire-Atmosphere Interactions
Michael Kiefer
Ignition from fire perimeter and assimilation into a
coupled fire-atmosphere
modelAdam Kochanski
Summary: Infusing Risk Management Principles into
the Fire Management System
Matthew Thompson/David Calkin
Lunch (On your own)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Room One - E141 Room Four - E145Room Three - E144
Coupling the human and biophysical dimensions of
wildfire to better understand wildfire risk and
risk mitigationMax Nielsen-Pincus
The Smoke-wise Community and the Path to
More FirePeter Lahm
Fire weather drives the population collapse of obligate-seeder forests
David Bowman
Community Protection and Adaptation
Moderator:
Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
W. Matt Jolly
Exploring interactions among multiple disturbance agents and
future climates in forest landscapesRobert Keane
Room Five - E146
Fire and ClimateModerator:
Room Two - E142/143
Landscaping with Ornamental Trees and
Exterior Structure Features using EcoSmart Fire Model
Mark Dietenberger
Setting Wildfire Evacuation Triggers by Coupling Fire
and Traffic Simulation Models
Dapeng Li
Laboratory Studies on the Generation of Firebrands and Ignition of Structural
ComponentsRaquel Hakes
Forward Heating in Wind-Driven Fire Spread
Wei Tang
Developments in the BlueSky smoke modeling framework
and related smoke toolsSim Larkin
Exploratory analysis of interactions of patchy/clumpy fuel configurations on fire behavior with a physics-based fire
modelRussell Parsons
Managing Fire in the Only EPA Declared Public Health
Emergency in AmericaNikia Hernandez
Fire and Smoke ModelingModerator:
Smoke ManagementModerator:
Impact of wildfires on regional air pollution
Ana Rappold
Field-scale testing of detailed physics-based fire behavior
modelsEric Mueller
Wildfire threat to residential structures in the Island Park Sustainable Fire Community
Joe Scott
Reducing Structural Losses from Wildfire: Are
Regulations the Answer?Cheryl Renner
When there’s Fire there’s Smoke: Linking Wildfire to Distant Urban Airsheds. A 5
Year Health Economic Assessment of the Western
US, 2010-2014.Benjamin Jones
Smoke in the City: How Often and Where Does
Smoke Impact Summertime
Ozone in the United States?Steven Brey
2:50-3:10
3:10-3:30
3:30-4:00
4:00- 5:00
5:00-7:00
7:00
7:30 am-5:00 pm
8:00-9:00
9:00-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:20
Smoke ManagementModerator:
Differential respiratory health effects from the 2008
northern California wildfires: a spatiotemporal
approachColleen Reid
Poster Session *List of Poster Presentations listed at the end of the program
GENERAL SESSION (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
Wildland Fire: Shared Problems, Shared Solutions
Vicki Christiansen, Associate Deputy Chief for State & Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service
Wildland/Urban Interface: U.S. Fire Department
Wildfire Preparedness and Readiness Capabilities
Michele Steinberg
Room Two - E142/143
SPECIAL SESSION: Wildland Fire Emission
Factors – Latest research and implications for
management and policyModerator:
Room One - E141
NETWORKING BREAK with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall E)
Room Three - E144
Transition to Concurrent Sessions
Experimental Study on the Surface Spread of Smouldering Peat Fires
Xinyan Huang
The effectiveness of large air tankers for containing wildfire
ignitions
Hari Katuwal
Room Four - E145
Wildfire ResponseModerator:
Fire WeatherModerator:
Case StudiesModerator:
Impact Oriented Fire PathsJoaquin Ramirez
Emissions Estimations and Smoke Plume Transport Analysis of the King Fire
Marlin Martinez
The Effect of Forest Gaps on the Transport and Dispersion of Smoke Plumes from Low-
Intensity Wildland FiresJovanka Nikolic
Conference Registration/Information Desk Open (Pre-Function E)
Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Spread Event on
a Large Fire in a Remote
Mountain Park
Kelsy Gibos/Dave Finn
After Hours Networking
Breakfast with the Exhibitors/Campfire Sessions/Roundtable Discussions/Seminars (Exhibit Hall E)
Emission Factors and Wildland Fire: Policy
Implications and
Applications
Pete Lahm
Projected impacts of climate change on vegetation and fire in the
Huachuca Mountains of ArizonaChristopher O'Connor
Examining Climate Impacts on Future Wildfire Emissions and
Southeastern US Air QualityUma Shankar
Development of an experimental apparatus for
testing material ember ignition behavior through
ventsBonnie Roberts
Room Five - E146
Sensor Messaging: Guidance for Interpretation of Short-
Term Concentration Readings
Susan Stone
General Session - Ron Steffens (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
Proactive wildfire management: Accounting
for wildfire vulnerability for new housing developments in Wildland Urban Interface
Elmira Kalhor
Introducing and Validating a New Fire Weather Index: The Hot-Dry-Windy
(HDW) Index
Alan Srock
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-12:00
12:00-1:30
Wildland Fire Smoke: A Hazard for Health Disaster
Management
Darlene Oshanski
Awards Luncheon (Portland Ballroom 256/257)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A Flexible Decision Support Framework for Smoke
Management: 3 Case StudiesMatthew Mavko
Testing the Hot-Dry-Windy Index for the 2015 Fire Season in the Pacific
NorthwestBrian Potter
Montana Idaho Airshed Group Smoke Management
Decision SupportErin Law
Room One - E141
Assessing New Emissions Factors for Estimating
Emissions from Wildland Fires
Duncan Lutes
Smoke Monitoring in the Field: Understanding
Equipment and the Value of Particulate Matter Data in
Making Smoke Management Decisions
Don Schweizer
Fire EconomicsModerator:
Fire and Smoke Modeling
Moderator:
Alaska Fire and Fuels System
John Horel
Will fire average emission factors provide the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of
emission reduction
techniques? Roger Ottmar
Understanding Smoke Transport from Prescribed
Burning in the Wildland
Urban Interface of Bend, Oregon
Susan O'Neill
Background to Emission Factor Development
Shawn Urbanski
Room Two - E142/143
Assessing the limits of large diameter live and dead fuel
consumption and their
potential influence on emissions Matt Jolly
The Complex Impacts of an Upper Level Ridge Breakdown along the Northeast
Slopes of the Washington CascadesJulia Ruthford
Room Three - E144
Fire Weather
Moderator:
Room Five - E146
Continued…SPECIAL SESSION:
Wildland Fire Emission Factors – Latest research
and implications for management and policy
Moderator:
Daily Relationships Between Fire Danger and Satellite-Derived Metrics of
Fire Activity Across CONUSPatrick Freeborn
Providing Information about Uncertainty Using Probability
Distributions: USDA Forest Service Wildfire Suppression Expenditure
ForecastingCharlotte Ham
A Case Study of Fire Behaviour in Mulched Black
SpruceJason Pankratow
Something Wicked This Way Burns: A Wicked Fire
Problem in a Coastal Oregon Town
Ron Steffens
Fuel loading and Fire Behaviour potential of
riparian forests in Banff National ParkRobert Osiowy
What Does It Mean to Have a High Initial Attack Success Rate in
Wildland Firefighting?Karen Short
Comparison of temperature and relative humidity values from Sling
Psychrometers and Electronic Weather Meters in an Controlled Environment
Charles McHugh
Emission Factors – Latest Research
Shawn Urbanski
Writing Incident Objectives in WFDSS: What we Know, How we
can do Better
Tonja Opperman
Room Four - E145
A 72-day Probabilistic Fire Growth Simulation as a
Decision Support Tool on a Large Mountain Fire in
Alberta, CanadaKelsy Gibos/Neal McLoughlin
Fire Effects (site)
Moderator:
Developing and Implementing Geospatial
Data Collection of Fuel Treatments, Lessons Learned
Justin Shedd
Beyond ICS: Propositions on
Managing Complex Fire EventsBranda Nowell
What is the Strategy? A Comparison of WFDSS and ICS 209
Morgan Pence
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
3:10-3:30
3:30-4:00
Black Carbon Production and Storage as a Result of Differing Fire
Frequencies in Longleaf Pine Forests
Adam Coates
Recovering Lost Ground: Effects of Soil Burn Intensity on Nutrients and
Ectomycorrhiza Communities of Ponderosa Pine Seedlings
Ariel Cowan
NETWORKING BREAK with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall E)
How Do Very Large Fires Get to be Very Large Fires?
Harry Podschwit
Discussion
Quantifying Emission Factors from Smouldering Peat Fires: a
Laboratory StudyRory Hadden
Rapid Response of Soil Fungal Communities to Low and High
Intensity Fire
Jane Smith
Evaluation and improvement of an advanced regional
modeling framework, addressing effects of wildfire
emissions on modeled air quality for the Pacific
NorthwestVikram Ravi
Basal duff smoldering beneath old pines: a distinctive pattern of
ground combustionJesse Kreye
The Economic Impacts of Wildfires in the Built and
Natural Water InfrastructureNatalia Sanabria
Assimilation of satellite active fires detection into a coupled weather-fire model
Jan Mandel
The importance of biomass burning feedbacks: Focus on CALIOP-based estimates of
smoke plume injection heightAmber Soja
Field-Scale Validation of Data-Driven Wildland Fire Spread
Simulations
Cong Zhang
Predictive Modeling and Mapping of Wildland Fire In
Lansdowne Corridor or
Lesser Himalayas: A Future Perspective for Tiger
Conservation
Amit Verma
Systematic Investigation of Wildfire Damage and Risks
on Property Values
Qiuhua Ma
Where and when an ignition turns to a
wildfire: an empirical studyElmira Kalhour
Panel Discussion
Modeling of Thunderstorm-Induced Wind Shifts
Scott Goodrick
The MesoWest/Synoptic Web Service: A Tool for Accessing Fire Weather Data
Joshua Clark
Defining fire season length using daily climatic, satellite, and documentary fire
recordsKarin Riley
Benefits and Incentives for Fuels Treatment in the
Mokelumne BasinMark Buckley
Minority Households Willingness-to-Pay for
Public and Private Wildfire Risk Reduction in Florida: A
Latent Class AnalysisJose J. Sanchez
Hedonic Models for Homes Vulnerable to Wildfire
David Rossi
The Effect of Wildfires on Recreation Visitation: A
Historical Analysis of the National Park Service’s Intermountain Region
Kara Walter
Effects of Forest Canopy on Atmospheric Turbulence
During Wildland FiresWarren Heilman
A Novel Wildfire Prediction Tool Utilizing Fire Weather and Machine
Learning MethodsLeo Deng
Smoke Emission Modeling Inter-comparison Project
(SEMIP) Sim Larkin
4:00-6:00
7:00
7:30 am-5:00 pm
7:30-8:30
8:30-8:50
8:50-9:10
9:10-9:30
Conference Registration/Information Desk Open (Pre-Function E)
Breakfast with the Exhibitors/Campfire Sessions/Roundtable Discussions/Seminars (Exhibit Hall E)
Joint Panel Session with Melbourne Location (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
How do we make the complex tradeoffs necessary to effectively manage fuels for ecosystem health and public safety?
Panel Moderator: Tamara Wall, Desert Research Institute
Panelists: Lynn Decker, Leland Tarnay, other TBD
Thursday, April 14, 2016
International Support and Wildfire: Successes, Challenges, and Areas for
Improvement from an NGO/Non-Profit Perspective
Robb Chappman
Automating Fuel Model Assignment and Spatial Alignment for Fire Spread
Modeling in Roaded Areas
Casey Teske
Educating the Future Fire Workforce to Respond to Increasingly Complex
ChallengesHeather Heward
Impacts of Post-fire Salvage Harvesting on Early-seral
Ecosystems in Western Oregon
John Bailey
Emerging Communication Technologies for Wildland
Firefighting
Ed Mills
Mapping Severe Fire Potential in the Contiguous United States
Brett Davis
Fire Use/RestorationModerator:
Fire EffectsModerator:
Spatial Analysis of the Influence of Fire Severity on Forest Structure on
the North Rim of Grand Canyon National ParkValentijn Hoff
TechnologyModerator:
Room One - E141 Room Five - E146Room Four - E145
Analyzing tradeoffs among socioeconomic and
ecological restoration goals on the national forests of the
Pacific NorthwestKevin Vogler
Critical Assessment of Wildland Fire Emissions
Inventories: Methodology, Uncertainty and
EffectivenessWei Min Hao
Education, etcModerator:
Synergistic Use of New NASA Technologies for Pre-, Active,
and Post-Fire ApplicationsE. Natasha Stavros
SPECIAL SESSION: Joint Fire Science Program and
Smoke Science Research: Status of Progress
Towards Meaningful Solutions
Moderator:
Modeling alternative fire response policies: proof-of-
concept and preliminary results
Karin Riley
Overview of the SC Regional Emissions and Aging
Measurements (SCREAM) study
Sonia Kreidenweis
Emissions and properties of light absorbing particles
emitted from fireGavin McMeeking
Efforts to Enhance the Emergency Fire Shelter: A Collaboration between the
USFS, NASA, and the University of Alberta
Tony Petrilli
Room Three - E144Room Two - E142/143
After Hours Networking
Developing a Performance Indicator for Restoring Fire to Parks Canada Ecosystems
Victor Kafka
9:30-9:50
9:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:40
11:40-1:00
1:00-1:20
Shared ResponsibilityModerator:
GENERAL SESSION (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
Gary Berndt, Kittitas County, County Commissioner
FuelsModerator:
Restoring Fire to North American Wildlands - A Call
to ActionTim Sexton
Successful Stewardship Begins with Trust: The Southern Blues Restoration
Coalition
Dana Skelly
New frontiers in fuel sampling: new techniques for
measuring fuels for fire
management in the USRobert Keane
Room Five - E146Room One - E141
Continued…SPECIAL SESSION: Joint
Fire Science Program and
Smoke Science Research: Status of Progress
Towards Meaningful Solutions
Moderator:
Room Three - E144
Estimating Fire Induced Basal Area Mortality with Multi-temporal
LiDARMichael Hoe
Discussion
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Lunch (On your own)
Detection of Forest Fires Impact with Remote Sensing
Data, ALSAT, In Semi-arid Zones, AlgeriaZegrar Ahmed
NETWORKING BREAK with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall E)
A casual inference analysis of the effect of fire smoke on ambient air pollution levels
Brian Reich
Room Four - E145Room Two - E142/143
UWSP Fire Crew Approaching Tomorrow’s Problems With Today’s
Education and TrainingJacob Livingston
Aerial Firefighting with HelicoptersBrittany Wise
Fire Moss as a Tool for Post-Wildfire Ecosystem Restoration
Chris Ives
Evaluating the Quality of a Wildfire Defensible Space
with Airborne LiDAR and GISJason Harshman
Burning for Blooms, Birds, and Butterflies: Partnerships and
Pyrodiversity in the Willamette ValleyAmanda Stamper
Disentangling the Drivers of Wildfire Severity in a Multi-Owner
Forest LandscapeHarold Zald
Where are we and where can we go with managing
fire and what do we need to
get there?Jim Hubbard
SPECIAL SESSION: Managing Wildfire for
Resource Benefit: Increasing Opportunities,
Improving EcosystemsModerator:
Simulating the Joint Impacts of Wildfires and Fuel Management on
Landscape Resiliency in Central
Oregon USAAna Barros
Using Natural Ignitions to Accomplish Land
Management ObjectivesKelly Martin
Investigation of particle and vapor wall-loss effects on controlled wood smoke
smog chamber experimentsJeffrey Pierce
Data and Tools for Analysis of Smoke Impacts on Ozone
and PMTom Moore
Fire Effects (landscape)Moderator:
Work to Improve the Emergency Fire Shelter Using
NASA Space Technology: “Convective Heating
Improvement for Emergency Fire Shelter (CHIEFS)"
Josh Fody
Planning for a future of more fire, safer fire, and better fire
Christopher O'Connor
1:20-1:40
1:40-2:00
2:00-2:20
2:20-2:40
2:40-3:00
3:00-3:15
Driving fire behaviour models with forest inventory data in Canada
Dan Thompson
Room Three - E144
New Approaches for Mapping the Wicked Problem of Wildfire
Cody Evers
Fire Weather/Fuel MoistureModerator:
Fire Management PlanningModerator:
Airborne based smoke
marker ratios from prescribed burning
Amy Sullivan
Next-Generation Fuels Mapping at Regional Scales: accounting for uncertainty
and spatial variabilitySusan Prichard
Think bigger: statewide wildfire risk perceptions in Idaho
Thomas Wuerzer
Forest fuels and potential fire behavior twelve years after variable-retention harvest in lodgepole pine
Justin Crotteau
Multi-dimensional cost-effectiveness of fuel treatments in
dry mixed conifer forests: an inventory originated analysis
Jeremy Fried
The effects of a long-term,
landscape-scale, fuel management program on three-dimensional fuel
loading and distributionNicholas Skowronski
Modeling fuels and fire effects in 3D with FuelManager and
STANDFIREFrancois Pimont
Panel Discussion
A Framework for Collaborative Learning: Forest Fuels and Vegetation
Monitoring in the Southern Blue Mountains
Becky Miller
Fire Adapted Communities - Networking on a Local & National Scale
Jerry McAdams
How wild is your model fire? Constraining WRF-
Chem wildfire smoke simulations with satellite
observationsJeffrey Pierce
Where have we been with managing fire for resource
benefits?Laurie Kurth, Frankie
Romero, Henry Bastian
How Wildland Fire Leaders are Co-Managing Risk
Michael Zupko
Estimating Litterfall Rates Following Stand-replacement
Disturbance in Northern
Rocky Mountain EcosystemsChristine Stalling
Managing fire for resource benefit - do we need a
special category?Frankie Romero
Comparative study of emission factors and
mutagenicity of red oak and peat smoke from
smoldering and flaming combustion
Yong Ho Kim
Changes of masticated
fuelbed properties over time in the western US
Pamela Sikkink
Continued…SPECIAL SESSION:
Managing Wildfire for Resource Benefit:
Increasing Opportunities,
Improving EcosystemsModerator:
Room Two - E142/143
Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment
(FASMEE)Roger Ottmar
Continued…SPECIAL SESSION: Joint
Fire Science Program and Smoke Science Research:
Status of Progress
Towards Meaningful Solutions
Moderator:
Room Four - E145
Utilizing drought science and information in wildfire
management decision contextTimothy Brown
Room Five - E146
Post Treatment Fuel Loading Differential in Two Logged
Areas of Banff National ParkErin Tassell
NETWORKING BREAK (Pre-Function E)
Fire and CarbonModerator:
Room One - E141
Panel Discussion
3:15-3:35
3:35-3:55
3:55-4:15
4:15-4:35
4:35-4:55
4:55-5:15
5:15-5:20
5:20-5:40
7:00
Estimating canopy bulk density distribution using calibrated t-LiDAR indices
Francois Pimont
Living with Fire – Lessons Learned from Central Africa Grass Savannas
and how it relates to Fire Management in the United States
Jim Menakis
Introduction to STARFire: wildland fire spatial planning and budgeting
Douglas Rideout
Effects of Stand Thinning in Modifying Crown Fire
Behavior in a Black Spruce Stand in Interior Alaska
Eric Miller
Discussion
Critical Examination of the Haines Index and its Use
Brian Potter
Water Quality Above All Else: Fire Management in the Greater Victoria
(British Columbia) Water Supply Area
Robert Walker
Moisture Exchange Models for Standing Dead Grass in Alaska
Eric Miller
Examination of pyrophytic plant combustion and the relationship
between fuel moisture, energy released, and emissionsEvan Ellicott
Panel Discussion
Post Conference Tours and Field Trips
The High Meadow Wildfire - A Natural Ignition Managed for Multiple Objectives In a
Complex Social EnvironmentMark Rosenthal
A new top-down method for estimating aerosol emissions applied to large wildfires in
North AmericaTadas Nikonovas
Flammability of Live Vegetation: Combustibility and Ignitability
Assessment
Jan Christian Thomas
Climatic and eco-hydrological drivers of fuel moisture dynamics in complex
terrainPetter Nyman
A Survey of Fire Managers: Characterization of Resource
Importance, Scarcity, and
Substitutability by Resource TypeCrystal Stonesifer
Quantifying avoided wildfire emissions from significant
wildfires in CaliforniaThomas Buchholz
Estimates of biomass consumption based on
MODIS Fire Radative Power overestimate global biomass
consumption and carbon release
Bryce Kellogg
Snag Dynamics and Fuel Succession Following
Wildfires in the Eastern
Cascade MountainsDavid Peterson
Friday, April 15, 2016
After Hours Networking
Closing Session (Portland Ballroom 254/255)
Estimating climate impacts on future wildfires and SE
US Air Quality
Uma Shankar
Risk Assessment in the Southern Sierras
Matt Thompson, Phil Bowden
Case Study - Bald Knob Fire, Pisgah NF
Riva Duncan
Rogue Basin – Risk Assessment across land ownership boundaries
Kerry Metlen
Case Study - Paradise Fire, Olympic NP
Todd Rankin
Using conditional Net Value Change outputs with FSPro
Joe Scott
Impacts of Mega-fires on large urban area air quality under changing climate and
fuelsYong Liu
Future Mega-fires and smoke impacts
Sim Larkin
Modeling evaluation of the contribution of wildland fire emissions of BC deposition
rates in the Western USSerena Chung
A Legacy of Fire Use: Fire Management and Fire Use in Eastern Province of Zambia
LaWen Hollingsworth
Panel Discussion
Developing new references for fine dead fuel moisture in the Southeastern
United StatesMatt Jolly
Transition to Closing Session
Poster Presentations 1. A Novel Application of Wildfire Risk Assessments in Land Management Plans- Jennifer Anderson 2. Experimental Research of Grass Ignition by the Heated up to High Temperatures Carbon Particle- Nikolay Baranovskiy 3. Mathematical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Coniferous Tree at the Forest Fire Influence- Nikolay Baranovskiy 4. Geomonitoring of Forest Fire Danger Using GIS and Remote Sensing: Case Study for Typical Area of Tomsk Region- Nikolay
Baranovskiy 5. Characterizing biogeographical variation in encounter rates between fire and fuel treatments in the conterminous United States-
Kevin Barnett 6. Tools for Improving Fire Behavior Fuel Model Spatial Data- Kori Blankenship 7. Modeling Fire Behavior in Clustered Stands of Treated Ponderosa Pine Forests- Conamara Burke 8. Relationships between Firing Technique, Fuel Consumption, and Turbulence and Energy Exchange during Prescribed Fires-
Kenneth Clark 9. Back to the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study for Wisdom on Fuels Treatment Longevity- Justin Crotteau 10. Blueprint For Survival, New Options, Skills, Procedure, For Extreme, Fast Fires -Troop Emonds 11. Reluctant to Simplify: Examining Assumptions about Wildland Firefighting Communication- Rebekah Fox 12. Two Frameworks for Post-fire Prediction of Tree Mortality Across Pyrogenic Landscapes- Michael Gallagher 13. A GIS tool and framework for integrating White-headed woodpecker habitat models into Fire and Land Management Planning
Scenarios- Jessica Haas 14. Conterminous United States LANDFIRE Analysis and Remap of the Fire Regime Group Layer -Wendel Hann 15. Conterminous United States FIRE BEHAVIOR of FUELS for VEGETATION: Invest Your Knowledge in the LANDFIRE Guidebook –
Wendel Hann & Lindaw Tedrow 16. A Fire History of the White Cap Creek Watershed in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho -Valentijn Hoff 17. Inexpensive Smoke Sensors and Aerial Platforms for Smoke Monitoring and Model Validation -John Hom 18. The Effect of Post-Mountain Pine Beetle Salvage Treatments on Fuel loads and Fuel Moisture in Colorado Lodgepole Pine Forests -
Paul Hood 19. Smoke Management Information Resources on the FRAMES Emissions and Smoke Portal -Josh Hyde 20. Effectiveness and Longevity of Ponderosa Pine Fuels Reduction Treatments: A Legacy of Research at Lick Creek
Demonstration/Research Forest in Montana, USA -Katelynn Jenkins 21. Simulation of a Prescribed Fire Event in the Jones Ecological Research Center -Michael Kiefer 22. Comparative Study of Emission Factors and Mutagenicity of Red Oak and Peat Smoke from Smoldering and Flaming Combustion -
Yong Ho Kim 23. Operational Maps Created from LiDAR Technology Identifying Landscape Firebreaks - Vesa Leppänen 24. Dependence of Daysmoke modeling of smoke plume vertical profiles on updraft core number -Yongqiang Liu 25. How do Spruce Beetle Outbreaks Affect Potential Wildfire Behavior? -Nathan Mietkiewicz 26. Cost-Effectiveness Study of Fire Emissions Inventory Systems -Helen Naughton 27. Evaluating shortwave radiation models for fuel moisture prediction -Petter Nyman
28. Planning for fire use and containment using a predictive spatial model of landscape-driven barriers to fire spread -Kit O'Connor 29. Assessing Impacts of Climate Change and Human Population Growth on Forest Fire Potential in the Tropics - A Case Study of the
Tain II Forest Reserve in Ghana - Eric Osei-Kwarteng 30. FIRESEV East: Mapping higher severity fire potential for the Eastern U.S. -Matthew Panunto 31. Development of a high-resolution (5-m) fuel model map based on LiDAR and NAIP and its application to Marin County, CA -Nathan
Pavlovic 32. Post-fire Logging Produces No Lasting Impacts on Understory Vegetation in Northeastern Oregon -David Peterson 33. Evaluating CMAQ's Ability to Simulate Ozone and PM2.5 from Wildland Fire Emissions -Thomas Pierce 34. Phase Changes of Water Droplet with Single Graphite Particle in a High-Temperature Gas -Maxim Piskunov 35. Summarizing wildfire development with growth statistics -Harry Podschwit 36. Synoptic Meteorology Associated with Large Fire Growth Episodes -Brian Potter 37. Effects of a British Columbia Wildfire on Soil Water Repellency -Aaren Ritchie-Bonar 38. Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) -Roger Ottmar 39. Innovations in Post Fire Assessment and Recovery, Malheur National Forest, Canyon Creek Complex -Dana Skelly 40. Multi-scale analyses of wildland fire combustion processes in open-canopied forests using coupled and iteratively informed
laboratory-, field-, and model-based approaches -Nicholas Skowronski 41. Real-Time Smoke Monitoring Using Rapid Deploy Equipment to Aid in Fire Management and Ensure Public Safety -Mike Slate 42. Putting the “I” in Wildfire Preparedness: Insurance & NFPA Working Together on Social Change Understanding -Michele Steinberg 43. Development of Real-Time Particulate and Toxic-Gas Sensors for Firefighters -Fumiaki Takahashi 44. Communities Using Early Wildfire Detection Technology to Successfully Reduce Risk, Damage, and Losses -Brendan Kramp 45. Do Fuels Treatments Promote Drought Resistance in Lassen National Park? -Mike Vernon 46. Towards use of Social Media as a Sensor for the Social Impacts of Wildfires -Nicholas Walding 47. Understory Vegetation Changes with Different Seasons and Intervals of Prescribed Burning -Harold Zald 48. Facilitating Fire Potential Depictions in Preparation and Response Decisions: Integrating Tools Online -Robert Ziel 49. Fire Regime Information in the Fire Effects Information System -Kristin Zouhar